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TIL Roughly 90% of the world's cargo is actually moved by sea, rather than the world's roadways

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1aad4 TIL the first US naval ship to have electric lighting was the USS Trenton (commissioned, 1877). The lights were installed in 1883
LkoRV TIL in 1898, during the Spanish American war, when the USS Charleston fired upon the island of Guam, the Spanish, unaware that a war was going on, rowed out to the ship and asked for gunpowder in order to return the American “salute”
kORoe TIL that the US has lost at least 8 Nuclear Bombs
l7Lp5 Today I learned that construction of the Washington Monument was delayed for 13 years because the pro-slavery states decided to go rogue. #slaveryremembered.
XgwP TIL after 2 US officers were killed while trying to cut down a tree in the DMZ, the US and South Korea sent 813 soldiers, 27 helicopters and nuclear-capable bombers to the DMZ to supervise the cutting down of the tree. North Korean soldiers watched in silence as the tree was cut down in 42 minutes.